How to make a catalog of my music collection using album barcodes?

Introduction.

Organizing your album library with some specialized
software makes it easier and more enjoyable. But what is the best way to
organize your music? Modern software is capable of taking
data even without any manual input. But how can you inform your computer what
music album you want to put into the local database without typing the name of
the album manually?

Musicnizer is a music manager
that can scan barcodes from DVD boxes and download album details from the
internet. It supports USB barcode scanners, but there is also an interesting
extra feature: the program can read barcodes using an ordinary webcam.

Step 1: Download and install the program.

Download Musicnizer to a known location. Run the downloaded setup program and
follow its instructions.

Step 2: Start the program. Add an album.

Launch Musicnizer. You will see a demo album database and Musicnizer
will prompt you to create a new one. So click "File" - "New database", choose
some name and destination folder for your music collection database, then hit "Save".

Now you can add some albums to your own local music database.
Click
"Add album" on the toolbar.

A new window will appear with options to choose from:

Select the "By barcode" option. The content of the window will change.
If you web camera is connected, it will be recognized and enabled automatically.
Put the DVD box of the album that you want to add to the webcam so that its
barcode fits the green frame (like on the screenshot above). The code will be recognized,
the title and cover of the album will appear in
the list on the left.

If you have some problems with barcode recognition, click the "Recognition
options" link and try to adjust camera settings. If you don't have any
camera or barcode scanner, you can still enter the barcode manually. Just click
the barcode field and type in the digits.

In this way you can add any number of music CDs to the list. Finally click
"Next" to proceed.

Musicnizer will start downloading information about your music albums from
the internet. You can enable the "Automatically select the first album from search results"
option to skip search results. If this
option is not checked, the window with available search results will appear
allowing you to choose the right one. Double click the correct result or select
it and click "Next".

Finally all your albums will be supplied with such details as genres, covers,
reviews and put into your personal album library, allowing you
to search and sort your music collection easily, generate reports and statistics
etc.

The free trial version of Musicnizer allows to add up to 20 music albums to
one database. If you like its features, you can register the program and remove
all limitations.